Authorities are investigating.Ī person from the Sheriff’s Office declined to confirm details when contacted Sunday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Haskins was taken to a launch area and pronounced dead by emergency responders. Haskins, 56, was headed north on a 2011 Sea-Doo personal watercraft, and James Moffatt, 77, was headed west in a Magnum powerboat when they collided, according to WZZM. Emmet County is near the Mackinac Bridge, which links the lower part of the state with its Upper Peninsula. on Lake Michigan near a small township on the northern tip of the state’s Lower Peninsula. The Emmet County Sheriff’s Office Marine Division responded to the crash at 2:13 p.m. and Station Casinos President Richard Haskins was riding a personal watercraft in Lake Michigan on Independence Day when he collided with a 27-foot powerboat, killing him, according to WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Station Casinos president Richard Haskins, seen in January 2016.
